kontextmaschine:

Impressed that Joe Biden is blowing off all the human-wise, nation-foolish epidemiologists on Twitter who want him to cancel Christmas (our cultural shorthand for evil villainy). Like, “God, what we’ve got to do is all stay inside for two months straight, repeated indefinitely forever, and then find the time, labor, and money to refit the bones of every school in the country, ::squawk:: COVIDisAirborne ::squawk::!”

I mean, if we try to maintain the state of exception as-is he gets blown the fuck out in 2022 and 2024 and we definitely open up then. If this turns out bad it’ll refill the political capital account for restrictions.

Admittedly, my judgement is colored by the fact that I’m apparently one of the only people for whom “long COVID” was a net positive, and the year and a half it took me out of was like if there were any you had the option to miss over my life it would be those

Oh my God, and it lets him triangulate against the types all “you can’t just live for yourself, you HAFF to take on any amount of burdens in the interests of the wulnerable!”, in a way such that costs disproportionately fall on conservatives but they’ve already put enough markers down they can’t pivot to attacking him for not supporting restrictions enough, that’s brilliant

To those types: the answer to “who is the decision to let a plague rip through the population supposed to win over?” is me

Again, in fairness, my perspective is I’m sure at some level influenced by the fact I’m like the only person I’ve ever heard of for whom “long COVID” was a net positive